The price of silent mutations: Small changes to DNA that were once considered innocuous enough to be ignored are proving to be important in human diseases, evolution and biotechnology

Scientific American

Volumn 300, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Chamary, J V ^a   Hurst, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CODON; CONFORMATION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; RNA SPLICING;

ANIMALS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CODON; DISEASE; DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POINT MUTATION; RNA; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 67650264293     PISSN: 00368733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican0609-46     Document Type: Article

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